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Get a job: Torn Banner seeks a Senior Multiplayer Level Designer
Get a job: Torn Banner seeks a Senior Multiplayer Level Designer
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare creator Torn Banner is looking to hire experienced multiplayer level designer to help drive its level design efforts on an Unreal 4 project at its Toronto, Ontario offices.
June 1, 2015
Video: How Unity and tools like it can stifle your creativity
Video: How Unity and tools like it can stifle your creativity
Developer Cliff "Cliffski" Harris takes to the Indie Soapbox at GDC 2015 to deliver a tongue-in-cheek tirade about how Unity and tools like it keep developers from achieving their peak potential.
June 1, 2015
Are hackers experiencing karma in the Underground Economy?
Are hackers experiencing karma in the Underground Economy?
The underground economy is a large group of websites that make it possible for hackers and fraudsters to trade illegal services and stolen goods such as credit card and online account credentials.
May 31, 2015
Lizard Squad: Original Pranksters
Lizard Squad: Original Pranksters
Lizard Squad: Original Pranksters
May 29, 2015
Nvidia offers AndroidWorks middleware for all Android devs
Nvidia offers AndroidWorks middleware for all Android devs
Regardless of whether or not the device you're targeting includes an Nvidia Tegra chip, you can use the company's new suite of tools.
May 29, 2015
Texas slashes government incentives for video games and film
Texas slashes government incentives for video games and film
As the two industries clash over who gets what, a lack of compromise and heightened scrutiny from politicians means that the latest subsidies are looking very lean by previous standards.
May 29, 2015
2K sticks by BioShock as the franchise tops 25M copies sold
2K sticks by BioShock as the franchise tops 25M copies sold
T2 chief Strauss Zelnick seems bullish about the future of 2K's BioShock franchise, which he claims has sold over 25M to date -- 11M of which were copies of Irrational Games' swan song Infinite.
May 29, 2015
Video: Designing cities for high-speed traversal in Sunset Overdrive
Video: Designing cities for high-speed traversal in Sunset Overdrive
At GDC 2015, Insomniac Games' Liz England deconstructs the design of Sunset Overdrive and the two scrapped cities that Insomniac built before arriving at the game's iconic Sunset City setting.
May 29, 2015
Get a job: Sucker Punch is hiring a Concept Artist
Get a job: Sucker Punch is hiring a Concept Artist
InFamous: Second Son studio Sucker Punch is after a full-time artist to work on crafting inspirational concepts and screenshot paint-overs to guide the team in the studio's Bellevue, WA office.
May 29, 2015
Starbreeze aims to snap up the Valhalla engine in $8.6M deal
Starbreeze aims to snap up the Valhalla engine in $8.6M deal
Stockholm-based Starbreeze Studios seeks to acquire the Valhalla game engine in a stock deal valued at roughly 73 million Swedish kroner (~$8.6 million USD).
May 28, 2015
Google updates its Cast SDK, for streaming games to TVs
Google updates its Cast SDK, for streaming games to TVs
You can use the device as a dedicated game controller, use the full horsepower of Android and iOS devices on Chromecast -- and the SDK now handles multiplayer games better, too.
May 28, 2015
Report: Apple buys augmented reality SDK startup Metaio
Report: Apple buys augmented reality SDK startup Metaio
The startup produced an SDK available for a variety of platforms -- and now Apple seems to have dived into the tech, as legal documents confirm that it's been snapped up by the tech giant.
May 28, 2015